Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Tots Icardi scores 39 in 30 so keeping him at striker

You're a hero doing that in the WL.

Ahh mate, I can't say it passed without incident

Acerbi was actually pretty good. Strangely I think he has the highest reactions/composure combination of any NIF CB in the game and with him being 6ft4 had little issue there. Rugani though. My God. He was lunging for interceptions with the ball bouncing off his heels for tap ins, giving away pens left, right and centre, struggling to catch up with the continuous tirade of Eusebio's, CR7's and the like we were encountering.

In a funny way I think having those NIF's helped a little though. People no doubt saw the pairings and thought they'd have a field day, drawing them on to me. Icardi mopped up because of it. Was finding him from deep crosses with increasing regularity (especially down the right) and once he got on to the end of a ball he very rarely missed, backed up by the fact he got 39 goals which is one of the higher returns I've had on any striker this year.

Kinda sad to break the team up to be honest, felt like I was on a journey with them and will definitely miss Acerbi and De Rossi (he more than held his own all weekend, even now the NIF is a solid enough CDM if a little slow)... Happy to be shot of TOTS Muriel (woeful), SMS and Rugani though

Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Tots Icardi scores 39 in 30 so keeping him at striker

You're a hero doing that in the WL.

Ahh mate, I can't say it passed without incident

Acerbi was actually pretty good. Strangely I think he has the highest reactions/composure combination of any NIF CB in the game and with him being 6ft4 had little issue there. Rugani though. My God. He was lunging for interceptions with the ball bouncing off his heels for tap ins, giving away pens left, right and centre, struggling to catch up with the continuous tirade of Eusebio's, CR7's and the like we were encountering.

In a funny way I think having those NIF's helped a little though. People no doubt saw the pairings and thought they'd have a field day, drawing them on to me. Icardi mopped up because of it. Was finding him from deep crosses with increasing regularity (especially down the right) and once he got on to the end of a ball he very rarely missed, backed up by the fact he got 39 goals which is one of the higher returns I've had on any striker this year.

Kinda sad to break the team up to be honest, felt like I was on a journey with them and will definitely miss Acerbi and De Rossi (he more than held his own all weekend, even now the NIF is a solid enough CDM if a little slow)... Happy to be shot of TOTS Muriel (woeful), SMS and Rugani though

Fun to test new players even at this stage. You should have tried Romagnoli for Rugani. Romagnoli was really good when I used him early in the game. Much better than Rugani.

Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Tots Icardi scores 39 in 30 so keeping him at striker

You're a hero doing that in the WL.

Ahh mate, I can't say it passed without incident

Acerbi was actually pretty good. Strangely I think he has the highest reactions/composure combination of any NIF CB in the game and with him being 6ft4 had little issue there. Rugani though. My God. He was lunging for interceptions with the ball bouncing off his heels for tap ins, giving away pens left, right and centre, struggling to catch up with the continuous tirade of Eusebio's, CR7's and the like we were encountering.

In a funny way I think having those NIF's helped a little though. People no doubt saw the pairings and thought they'd have a field day, drawing them on to me. Icardi mopped up because of it. Was finding him from deep crosses with increasing regularity (especially down the right) and once he got on to the end of a ball he very rarely missed, backed up by the fact he got 39 goals which is one of the higher returns I've had on any striker this year.

Kinda sad to break the team up to be honest, felt like I was on a journey with them and will definitely miss Acerbi and De Rossi (he more than held his own all weekend, even now the NIF is a solid enough CDM if a little slow)... Happy to be shot of TOTS Muriel (woeful), SMS and Rugani though

Plying with NIF or otherwise unpopular players has its benefits like you said. Opponents will underestimate you a lot. Played some games with full silver squad in Div.1 and teared a 20million squad apart. Guess what i got a hate meassage later saying how lucky i got. I just answered: "Maybe you are just not good enough when you have to write hate maessages to me playing with a squad worth less in overall than your 3 bronze players on the bench " Got no further reply after that, i guess he wa speachless in the end

Going to be using 4411 to start for chem reasons this weekend but figure seeing as I'm starting it may as well give things a whirl (like the good old days eh?).

I assume your stickied tactics from page 1 on your guide are good to go?

Using these:

Can use Balanced if you're decent at defending.

I have Stay back on Fullbacks.

Balanced on CM with H/H and stay back on Gullit (he'll bomb forward anyways.

LM and RM is balanced and Get In Behind. Have Cut Inside on the best shooter.

CF is on False 9 I think or just Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

ST is on Stay Forward and Get In Behind.

Sweet, I shall give it a whirl

Got 19 wins last weekend using NIF Acerbi and Rugani at CB along with NIF De Rossi and SMS in midfield and switching between loan Mertens and Dybala (again just the NIFs) at CAM using a Serie A squad built solely from upgrades

Combining the best players from it with my regulars like TOTS Hazard, FB Firmino, 93 Aguero etc and strengthening the CB spots a little so hoping it’s enough to see me over the 20 win mark... just fancied a bit of a challenge last weekend - believe me, concentration levels were maxed with Rugani at the back

Tots Icardi scores 39 in 30 so keeping him at striker

You're a hero doing that in the WL.

Ahh mate, I can't say it passed without incident

Acerbi was actually pretty good. Strangely I think he has the highest reactions/composure combination of any NIF CB in the game and with him being 6ft4 had little issue there. Rugani though. My God. He was lunging for interceptions with the ball bouncing off his heels for tap ins, giving away pens left, right and centre, struggling to catch up with the continuous tirade of Eusebio's, CR7's and the like we were encountering.

In a funny way I think having those NIF's helped a little though. People no doubt saw the pairings and thought they'd have a field day, drawing them on to me. Icardi mopped up because of it. Was finding him from deep crosses with increasing regularity (especially down the right) and once he got on to the end of a ball he very rarely missed, backed up by the fact he got 39 goals which is one of the higher returns I've had on any striker this year.

Kinda sad to break the team up to be honest, felt like I was on a journey with them and will definitely miss Acerbi and De Rossi (he more than held his own all weekend, even now the NIF is a solid enough CDM if a little slow)... Happy to be shot of TOTS Muriel (woeful), SMS and Rugani though

Fun to test new players even at this stage. You should have tried Romagnoli for Rugani. Romagnoli was really good when I used him early in the game. Much better than Rugani.

How will the new team look?

Not entirely sure on my CB pairing yet, a lot will depend on rewards tomorrow, but this gist of the team will be...

Something like that anyway. Only have around 200k to spend on this RTG (like last year, i discarded my main account once more ) so my options are a little limited tbh... may even start with IF Balde Diao on left just to get everyone on full chem and sub on El Sha along with Tots Goretz at HT.

Find subs as important as starters a lot of the time, so have no issues sacrificing a little starting strength in order to have effective backup

Don’t know what it is about him, his player model perhaps, just really doesn’t feel like a high rated CB in game.

Putting Acerbi back in

#nofear

Go with Acerbi and Romagnoli.

I’ve picked up Carniball Bonucci who’s been okay... but as soon as I get annoyed with him, which I will seeing as he’s a high rated CB and I seem to like to suffer in WL, Romagnoli will be the next I call upon

Don’t know what it is about him, his player model perhaps, just really doesn’t feel like a high rated CB in game.

Putting Acerbi back in

#nofear

Go with Acerbi and Romagnoli.

I’ve picked up Carniball Bonucci who’s been okay... but as soon as I get annoyed with him, which I will seeing as he’s a high rated CB and I seem to like to suffer in WL, Romagnoli will be the next I call upon

Acerbi and Bonucci for now though.

Cool! I was not a fan of Bonucci when I tried him. He felt off for me.

Don’t know what it is about him, his player model perhaps, just really doesn’t feel like a high rated CB in game.

Putting Acerbi back in

#nofear

Go with Acerbi and Romagnoli.

I’ve picked up Carniball Bonucci who’s been okay... but as soon as I get annoyed with him, which I will seeing as he’s a high rated CB and I seem to like to suffer in WL, Romagnoli will be the next I call upon

Acerbi and Bonucci for now though.

Cool! I was not a fan of Bonucci when I tried him. He felt off for me.

This game's stupid though...

Just had a lad rage quit at 2-0 seconds after Bonucci kept pace with his TOTS Hazard and forced him to drag a shot wide

I could probably just about stretch to TOTS Izzo now actually, may take a look at him replacing Chiellini who's definitely the one that feels off for me.

Oh, got these two in picks earlier...

Considering I'm running a Serie A/Prem hybrid built around Icardi, Aguero and a whole bunch of Italians feel like it was kinda meant to be lol

Don’t know what it is about him, his player model perhaps, just really doesn’t feel like a high rated CB in game.

Putting Acerbi back in

#nofear

Go with Acerbi and Romagnoli.

I’ve picked up Carniball Bonucci who’s been okay... but as soon as I get annoyed with him, which I will seeing as he’s a high rated CB and I seem to like to suffer in WL, Romagnoli will be the next I call upon

Acerbi and Bonucci for now though.

Cool! I was not a fan of Bonucci when I tried him. He felt off for me.

This game's stupid though...

Just had a lad rage quit at 2-0 seconds after Bonucci kept pace with his TOTS Hazard and forced him to drag a shot wide

I could probably just about stretch to TOTS Izzo now actually, may take a look at him replacing Chiellini who's definitely the one that feels off for me.

Oh, got these two in picks earlier...

Considering I'm running a Serie A/Prem hybrid built around Icardi, Aguero and a whole bunch of Italians feel like it was kinda meant to be lol